cooling

By surface analysis, cool +‎ -ing.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːlɪŋ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkulɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
• Hyphenation: cool‧ing

cooling (comparative more cooling, superlative most cooling)

1. That cools.

   Synonym: frigorific

2. (Asian English). Of food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.

   Antonym: heaty

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 187:

     Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?

cooling (countable and uncountable, plural coolings)

1. (countable) A decrease in temperature.
2. (uncountable) Refrigeration.

cooling

1. present participle and gerund of cool

• “cooling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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